{"id":8977,"date":"2013-07-11T13:06:38","date_gmt":"2013-07-11T17:06:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webmakerblog.wpengine.com\/?p=8977"},"modified":"2019-02-26T12:43:56","modified_gmt":"2019-02-26T20:43:56","slug":"talk-back-to-the-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/foundation-archive\/mozilla-learning\/talk-back-to-the-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Talking back to the news: How to use Popcorn to respond to current events"},"content":{"rendered":"

At last weekend’s Hive Toronto<\/a> Popcorn Maker Party for youth, attendees and mentors learned that \u2014 with a little creativity and remixing \u2014 they were able to use Mozilla Webmaker tools like Popcorn Maker to talk back to the news.
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Who says making and learning with others can’t be fun?<\/p><\/div>
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Learners getting ready to dive into Popcorn<\/p><\/div>
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Brains-a-storming<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n

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Youth were there to learn the basics of the browser-based video tool Popcorn Maker <\/a>and remix their own video. But once they’d mastered the basics, they quickly started going beyond what they had learned to push the boundaries for Popcorn \u2014 specifically as a way to remix and engage with current events.<\/p>\n

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It started with a make by 14-year-old Dunja. Dunja took a video of the Quebec oil train disaster that had happened only hours before the workshop, and then remixed it with Popcorn Maker. The result was a young learner who had just engaged with breaking news and created something that allowed her to share the news with her peers in a personalized and visual way.<\/p>\n

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“You don\u2019t have to be a tech-genius to make great things with Popcorn.”<\/em> — Dunja<\/p>\n

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Learners shared what they loved or learned<\/p><\/div>\n

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This wouldn’t have been possible without the enthusiastic Webmaker Mentors, who also did their share of learning at the party. Mentor @cassiemc told us that she was impressed with the youths’ ability to take timely content and fully conceptualize, develop and create an idea in a matter of an hour or two \u2014 faster than most creative adults.<\/p>\n

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Mentor @jbuck, teaching the web<\/p><\/div>
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Proof that the Webmaker mentors are awesome<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n

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